[2.2 Video Guide] Beginner's Build: Dual Flame Totem, Blood Magic Chieftain [Atziri & HC/SC Viable]
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Isn't Combat Stamina plain better than Quick Recovery?
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" Well you get a lot more life out of Quick Recovery. 14% and 0.8 regen vs 5% and 1.8% regen. The difference is the 30% armor. Also, 3 normal Life and Armor nodes have 12% life and 24% armor. They are all beneficial in different ways. Last edited by damelon#0632 on Jul 26, 2015, 11:29:05 AM
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Can you explain why fire penetration would be better then added lightning damage gem in chest? Added lightning adds a couple thousand dps so just curious.
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" There are a lot of threads which do math on the value of fire penetration vs added damage spells (chaos or elemental) - Fire Penetration doesn't show up in tooltip which is where a lot of people put it into question. Fire Penetration is also different than resistance reduction. So flammability may reduce resistance where fire penetration bypasses the resistance completely (for the given %). Reducing a bosses resist for instance doesn't do a lot since their resistances are very high. Long story short, especially with flame totem, fire pen is usually considered the 3rd best gem. (Behind faster casting) Also consider that (with added lightning dmg) you are now adding another elemental damage type which you aren't cursing for, and now has no penetration or resistance reduction. So you are throwing that damage up against a highly resistant wall and the damage you are gaining on the tooltip is not all reaching the target due to damage reduction due to resistance. Switching to elemental weakness would reduce both resistances but penetrate none, and also loses the increased ignite chance. If you go dual-curse then it becomes a different story and a lot more complicated but then there becomes a breakpoint with elemental damage increase in nodes where it is viable. This isn't a dual curse build though, so assuming you are pretty close to this build, it most likely isn't better. If you do use consuming dark however, then fire penetration should be removed. Last edited by damelon#0632 on Jul 26, 2015, 12:17:41 PM
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Tizid
Your build would probably boost my dps massively as well, but it will give me -24% armour, -11% life & -20 life. Feels abit meh for now since my dps is doing OK. Looks fun tho. My current dps is 13.9k without Herald (in the first 4 seconds), 5244 life, 960 ES and 6500 armour. Gear:
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Hi All:
I'm having some trouble with my tree/gear, wondering if some other Flamebros can help me out: Current Gear:
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Stats with Herald of Thunder + Golem: 2.9k HP/1.2k ES 1069 Armour Capped Allres/-15 Chaos Res 10.6k DPS Flame Totem Question 1: Wand I bought the other day, still has an open Prefix and Suffix. What should I craft on it? My Catarina isn't leveled yet, but I do have access to +Increased Fire Suffix, not sure what would be good to add for prefix. Question 2: Skill Tree My current skill tree is HERE, I feel like I'm wandering a bit. I'm not sure if it was worth breaking off and grabbing the Shaman's Dominion passive for +100 crit for 4 seconds after laying a totem, I'm not really in crit anywhere else on the build. I have a bunch of regrets ready to alter the build, does anyone have any recommendations? Still feel a bit squishy in 71 maps, despite being resist capped. Question 3: Doryani's/Lioneye's I have enough currency to snag each of the uniques in the OP, minus Apep's (which I think my wand would be better after crafting final 2 mods), are each of them worth getting over the medium rares I have on now? Question 4: Jewel Slots I noticed a big jump in DPS after snagging my first Clear Mind jewel, though I've only found 2 slots on the tree that are convenient to grab a jewel socket. Where do you guys recommend going to grab these, are they worth ~3 skill pts? Last edited by gibtuck#6639 on Jul 26, 2015, 2:45:42 PM
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" Are u in HC? If so u need lots of more hp on your gear. |
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" Sorry, didn't clarify in message, this is in Warbands SC. I am feeling the squish in the 71+ maps, hard to keep my attribute requirements though, that damn wand requires 245 int. |
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Hey everyone! I've been trying to decide what chest piece to go with. I got a Soul Mantle Spidersilk Robe as a drop at 64 that I have been using, and I honestly really like having 3 totems. I use a curse remove flask so I really dont care about the curse on totem death aspect of it. I see everyone running the 100% spell damage on low mana chest, and it was what I was originally going for, but I just dont know number wise if its better than having 3 totems w/o that increase. Anyone know?
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Beat atziri!!
Never played against atziri before, never had the guts...lv87 witch here I used this build and beat her just barely mostly due to my inexperience and not having a ruby flask on hand . Still beat her tho using dual totem build , awesome! 19K tooltip dmg fyi. Great build & guide! Last edited by leggojake23#7987 on Jul 26, 2015, 5:21:38 PM
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